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Spain and EU foreign policy after Lisbon ; still calling the tune in EU Latin America policy?
2014
Masteroppgave offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder, 2014 Ever since its accession to the EU in 1986 Spain has been considered to be the main driver of the EU Latin America policy, regardless of government. This particular domain of EU foreign policy has for a long time been of relatively little interest among the other member states, which in other words left Spain as its undisputed leader, with permission from Portugal. Spain has therefore been quite successful in shaping EU Latin America policy according to its national foreign policy preferences, in particular during the 1990s when conditions such as the international context, the institutional set-up of the EU and the do…
Matpolitikk i Norge- fremdelses norsk? : en studie av norsk forvaltnings arbeid med politikkutvikling innenfor EØS
2014
Masteroppgave offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder, 2014 Norge overtar hvert år overtar mellom 10-15 prosent av alle nye direktiver og forordninger som vedtas i EU som en del EØS-avtalen. Innenfor matfeltet, som er studiens nedslagsfelt, er ca. 90 prosent av de mange forskriftene som gis nasjonalt, ren EU/EØS-rett (NOU, 2012, s. 793). Formålet med studien er å se nærmere på hvilke aktører som påvirker politikkutformingen av det EØS-lovverket Norge implementerer og hva slags betingelser som ligger til grunn for denne påvirkningen. I problemstillingen søkes det belyst i hvilken grad politikkutformingsfasen knyttet til biproduktforordningen innenfor matfeltet er flernivåadminis…
Role perception of representatives on management boards inEU-level agencies
2009
Masteroppgave i offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder 2009 This study tries to explain what role perception different representatives on management boards in EU-level agencies adopt when they are attending board meetings and what influences the representatives to adopt the role they do. Do the representatives adopt a supranational role, an intergovernmental role or an expert role on the management board? I have chosen organizational theory and institutional theory to try to explain the different roles representatives adopt on the management board. Empirically, I observed that the representatives adopt an ambiguous role perception where they have to balance the three roles. Th…
Mot en felles europeisk forsvarsadministrasjon? : forsvarsadministrasjonens handlingsrom, og iverksettingsmyndighet, i EUs flernivåadministrasjon
2013
Masteroppgave i offentlig politikk og ledelse - Universitetet i Agder 2013 EØS-avtalen preger norsk rolle i EUs flernivåadministrasjon. Tidligere forskning viser at direktorater og etater har fått en økt rolle i EUs administrasjon. I denne studien er ønsket å se om de tendensene og betingelsene er tilstede i Forsvarsadministrasjonen, som ikke direkte preges av EØS-avtalen. Problemstillingen er som følger: “I hvilken grad, og hvordan, inngår norsk Forsvarsadministrasjon i EUs flernivåadministrasjon?” Utgangspunktet for datainnsamlingen er norske og europeiske offentlige dokumenter (NOU’er, stortingsmeldinger og traktater). For å supplere og utdype analysen gjort av disse, er det brukt delvis…
Autonomy of International Bureaucracies: On the Actor-Level Autonomy in the WTO Secretariat
2014
Masteroppgave offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder, 2014 The research question in this study addresses actor-level autonomy as enacted by civil servants within an international bureaucracy, namely the WTO Secretariat. The objective is to identify underlying mechanisms arguably responsible for inciting patterns of behaviour among civil servants. This study is premised on the assumption that autonomy may be studied by examining behavioural patterns of the incumbents and that such behavioural patterns largely are a consequence of mechanisms of pre-socialization, re-socialization and organizational affiliation. The study consists of two main parts. The first part is descriptive …
Hva er uønsket med deltid? : en historisk-sosiologisk analyse
2011
Masteroppgave i velferdsstudier - Universitetet i Agder 2011 Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i begrepet uønsket deltid, som strengt tatt viser til den enkelte arbeidstakers arbeidstidsønsker, men som åpnes opp for mulige andre betydninger. Hensikten har vært å undersøke hva som i det hele tatt er uønsket med deltid, og hvorfor. Metoden har vært dokumentanalyse. Fokuset er blitt rettet mot situasjonen i helse- og omsorgsektoren. Det konkluderes med at deltidsarbeid kan være uønsket ut fra en rekke hensyn som både viser til den enkelte arbeidstakers interesser i form av tap av goder som lønn og pensjonspoeng, tilhørighet og integrasjon, men også til samfunnsøkonomiske og velferdspolitiske int…
Diversité microbienne des sols : stratégie méthodologique, distribution spatiale et traduction en fonctionnement biologique
2011
International audience; Since the development of industrialization, urbanization and agriculture, soils have been subjected to numerous variations in environmental conditions, which have resulted in modifications of the taxonomic diversity and functioning of the indigenous microbial communities. As a consequence, the functional significance of these losses/modifications of biodiversity, in terms of the capacity of ecosystems to maintain the functions and services on which humanity depends, is now of pivotal importance. In this context, one of the main challenges in soil microbial ecology is to better understand and predict the processes that drive soil microbial diversity and the link betwe…
The Politics of Explanatory Nationalism and the Evolution of the United Nations Agenda on Multinational Enterprises
2020
The contemporary world continues to suffer from a number of social problems that are global in scope but impact the Global South disproportionately. While broad and coordinated policy responses to overcome these problems exist, such policies are not shaped solely by the political will to address the problems. On the contrary, their content largely depends on how societies in general and the social problems in particular are routinely explained and conceptualized. We refer to these as explanatory tendencies or paradigms of explanation. As complex problems always have multiple root causes with long causal chains, explanations of these causes necessarily involve some assumptions about relevant…
Mainstreaming gender in the EU-accession process: the case of the Baltic Republics
2005
Since the early 1990s, the Baltic states have gone through processes of economic transition and liberalization. Although various reports give an overview of gendered impacts of these economic reforms, they fail to elaborate on the more complex relations between gender, citizenship, and social exclusion. This article explores these relations in more detail. The first decade of reforms in the Baltic states resulted in a lack of economic prospects, in particular for women from minority groups and women working in low-pay sectors. This made them increasingly vulnerable to trafficking for sexual purposes: migration to Western Europe was an attractive alternative for those without work, whether …
Reassessing British Conservative Euroscepticism as A Case of Party (Mis)Management
2015
Much has already been written about internal party divisions and European integration (Hix and Lord 1997; Conti 2007; Szczerbiak and Taggart 2008; Conti 2014), with the example of the British Conservative Party of the 1990s often used as a textbook case of a mainstream government party expressing some forms of opposition to European integration. In a wider comparative framework, the party can also be located within a Eurosceptic drift across the centre-right in the EU (Best 2012, p. 140). The case of the British Conservative Party is all the more relevant as the history of European integration shows how party families on the centre-right initially played an active part in the setting up of …